Global Developments in Literacy Research for Science Education

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
 The Expanding Development of Literacy Research in Science Education Around the World  (Kok-Sing Tang, Kristina Danielsson)....Pages 1-11
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 The Implementation of Scientific Literacy as Basic Skills in Norway After the School Reform of 2006  (Erik Knain, Marianne Ødegaard)....Pages 15-28
 But I’m Not an English Teacher!: Disciplinary Literacy in Australian Science Classrooms  (Chris Davison, Sue Ollerhead)....Pages 29-43
 Meeting Disciplinary Literacy Demands in Content Learning: The Singapore Perspective  (Caroline Ho, Natasha Anne Rappa, Kok-Sing Tang)....Pages 45-60
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 Learning Language and Intercultural Understanding in Science Classes in Germany  (Silvija Markic)....Pages 63-77
 Supporting English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) Learners’ Science Literacy Development in CLIL: A Genre-Based Approach  (Yuen Yi Lo, Angel M. Y. Lin, Tracy C. L. Cheung)....Pages 79-95
 Language, Literacy and Science Learning for English Language Learners: Teacher Meta Talk Vignettes from a South African Science Classroom  (Audrey Msimanga, Sibel Erduran)....Pages 97-111
 The Content-Language Tension for English Language Learners in Two Secondary Science Classrooms  (Jason S. Wu, Felicia Moore Mensah, Kok-Sing Tang)....Pages 113-130
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 A Case Study of Literacy Teaching in Six Middle- and High-School Science Classes in New Zealand  (Aaron Wilson, Rebecca Jesson)....Pages 133-147
 Analyzing Discursive Interactions in Science Classrooms to Characterize Teaching Strategies Adopted by Teachers in Lessons on Environmental Themes  (Ana Lucia Gomes Cavalcanti Neto, Edenia Maria Ribeiro do Amaral, Eduardo Fleury Mortimer)....Pages 149-166
 Measuring Time. Multilingual Elementary School Students’ Meaning-Making in Physics  (Britt Jakobson, Kristina Danielsson, Monica Axelsson, Jenny Uddling)....Pages 167-181
 Meaning-Making in a Secondary Science Classroom: A Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis  (Qiuping He, Gail Forey)....Pages 183-202
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 Literacy Challenges in Chemistry: A Multimodal Analysis of Symbolic Formulas  (Yu Liu)....Pages 205-218
 Gains and Losses: Metaphors in Chemistry Classrooms  (Kristina Danielsson, Ragnhild Löfgren, Alma Jahic Pettersson)....Pages 219-235
 Image Design for Enhancing Science Learning: Helping Students Build Taxonomic Meanings with Salient Tree Structure Images  (Yun-Ping Ge, Len Unsworth, Kuo-Hua Wang, Huey-Por Chang)....Pages 237-258
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 Inquiry-Based Science and Literacy: Improving a Teaching Model Through Practice-Based Classroom Research  (Marianne Ødegaard)....Pages 261-280
 Infusing Literacy into an Inquiry Instructional Model to Support Students’ Construction of Scientific Explanations  (Kok-Sing Tang, Gde Buana Sandila Putra)....Pages 281-300
 Representation Construction as a Core Science Disciplinary Literacy  (Russell Tytler, Vaughan Prain, Peter Hubber)....Pages 301-317
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 Science and Language Experience Narratives of Pre-Service Primary Teachers Learning to Teach Science in Multilingual Contexts  (Mariona Espinet, Laura Valdés-Sanchez, Maria Isabel Hernández)....Pages 321-337
 Examining Teachers’ Shifting Epistemic Orientations in Improving Students’ Scientific Literacy Through Adoption of the Science Writing Heuristic Approach  (Brian Hand, Soonhye Park, Jee Kyung Suh)....Pages 339-355
 Developing Students’ Disciplinary Literacy? The Case of University Physics  (John Airey, Johanna Larsson)....Pages 357-376
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 Commentary on the Expanding Development of Literacy Research in Science Education  (Larry D. Yore)....Pages 379-397
Back Matter ....Pages 91-95